Loneliness and the incapacity to create a durable relationship is the greatest poverty in our society and the cause of much instability. Someone is kissed and says : "It's twenty years ago since I've been kissed." People who end up in hospital or a home for the aged and who never receive a visit. People who die and to whom only a few friends from the Poverello-family pay their last respects, no one else. At times like that one realizes just what Poverello means for some people